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COLBURN, HENRY (d. 1855)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 660 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COLBURN, See also:HENRY (d. 1855) , See also:British publisher, obtained his earliest experience of See also:bookselling in See also:London at the See also:establishment of W. See also:Earle, See also:Albemarle See also:Street, and afterwards as an assistant at IVIorgan's Library, Conduit Street, of which in 1816 he became proprietor. He afterwards removed to New See also:Burlington Street, where he established himself as a publisher, resigning the Conduit Street Library to Messrs Saunders & See also:Otley. In 1814 he originated the New Monthly See also:Magazine, of which at various times See also:Thomas See also:Campbell, Bulwer See also:Lytton, See also:Theodore See also:Hook and See also:Harrison See also:Ainsworth were editors. Colburn- published in 1818 See also:Evelyn's See also:Diary, and in 1825 the Diary of See also:Pepys, edited by See also:Lord Braybrooke, paying £2200 for the See also:copyright. He also issued Disraeli's first novel, See also:Vivian See also:Grey, and a large number of other See also:works by Theodore Hook, G. P. R. See also:James, See also:Marryat and Bulwer Lytton. In 1829 See also:Richard See also:Bentley (q.v.) was taken into See also:partnership; and in 1832 Colburn retired, but set up again soon afterwards in-dependently in See also:Great See also:Marlborough Street; his business was taken over in 1841 by Messrs See also:Hurst & Blackett. Henry Colburn died on the 16th of See also:August 1855, leaving See also:property to the value of £35,000.

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